How to format your references using the Heart and Vessels citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Heart and Vessels. For a complete guide how to prepare your manuscript refer to the journal's instructions to authors.

Using reference management software

Typically you don't format your citations and bibliography by hand. The easiest way is to use a reference manager:

Paperpile	The citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNote	Find the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and others	The style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles are usually part of a LaTeX template. Check the instructions to authors if the publisher offers a LaTeX template for this journal.

Journal articles

Those examples are references to articles in scholarly journals and how they are supposed to appear in your bibliography.

Not all journals organize their published articles in volumes and issues, so these fields are optional. Some electronic journals do not provide a page range, but instead list an article identifier. In a case like this it's safe to use the article identifier instead of the page range.

A journal article with 1 author

Kump LR (2008) The rise of atmospheric oxygen. Nature 451:277–278

A journal article with 2 authors

Williams LE, Bargh JA (2008) Experiencing physical warmth promotes interpersonal warmth. Science 322:606–607

A journal article with 3 authors

Helled R, Galanti E, Kaspi Y (2015) Saturn’s fast spin determined from its gravitational field and oblateness. Nature 520:202–204

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Rich TH, Hopson JA, Musser AM, et al (2005) Independent origins of middle ear bones in monotremes and therians. Science 307:910–914

Books and book chapters

Here are examples of references for authored and edited books as well as book chapters.

An authored book

El-Reedy MA (2011) Construction Management for Industrial Projects. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

García-Pedrajas N, Herrera F, Fyfe C, et al (2010) Trends in Applied Intelligent Systems: 23rd International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Other Applications of Applied Intelligent Systems, IEA/AIE 2010, Cordoba, Spain, June 1-4, 2010, Proceedings, Part II. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Bonacchi S, Genovese D, Juris R, et al (2010) Energy Transfer in Silica Nanoparticles: An Essential Tool for the Amplification of the Fluorescence Signal. In: Geddes CD (ed) Reviews in Fluorescence 2008. Springer, New York, NY, pp 119–137

Web sites

Sometimes references to web sites should appear directly in the text rather than in the bibliography. Refer to the Instructions to authors for Heart and Vessels.

Blog post

Andrews R (2016) This Awkward Feathered Dinosaur Was Almost Blown Up By Dynamite. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/awkward-feathered-dinosaur-almost-blown-up-dynamite/. Accessed 30 Oct 2018

Reports

This example shows the general structure used for government reports, technical reports, and scientific reports. If you can't locate the report number then it might be better to cite the report as a book. For reports it is usually not individual people that are credited as authors, but a governmental department or agency like "U. S. Food and Drug Administration" or "National Cancer Institute".

Government report

Government Accountability Office (1998) Information Technology Workers: Employment and Starting Salaries. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Mauger GS (2008) Synoptic sensitivities of subtropical clouds: Separating aerosol effects from meteorology. Doctoral dissertation, University of California San Diego

News paper articles

Unlike scholarly journals, news papers do not usually have a volume and issue number. Instead, the full date and page number is required for a correct reference.

New York Times article

Wagner J (2017) Mets’ Wheeler Lands on the D.L. With a Stress Injury. New York Times B11

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1, 2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Heart and Vessels
Abbreviation	Heart Vessels
ISSN (print)	0910-8327
ISSN (online)	1615-2573
Scope	Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine